Principal Data Engineer

Key Skills

Apache Airflow, AWS, Azure, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Data Biuld Tool - dbt, Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Lake, Data pipelines, Data science techniques, Database, Databricks, Design, DevOps, Git, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Infrastructure-as-code-IaC, Snowflake, SPARK Programming, SQL Server, Terraform

Job Description

Bentley Systems is hiring a principal data engineer role within our Data Architecture and Engineering team that is part of a larger Data Operations group. This is a role for an experienced data engineer with a strong technical background, a deep understanding of data architecture, and the ability to work with cross-functional teams to drive data initiatives forward.

The principal data engineer will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining our data infrastructure and pipelines. You will be responsible for ensuring the availability, accuracy, and performance of our data systems, enabling data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to derive valuable insights and make data-informed decisions. You will provide technical leadership to a team of data engineers supporting their growth through coaching and mentoring.

Successful candidates will be comfortable in writing code, maintaining data pipelines (ELT), utilizing a Dev Ops methodology, and have experience in the software development life cycle.

 We will rely on you for the following:

• Manage our present data infrastructure including data pipelines, data warehouse and data lakes (Snowflake, Matillion, DBT, Terraform, Databricks)
• Manage the transition from historical On-Prem SQL Server Database to a modern cloud implementation
• Develop great business understanding and how to leverage data to answer questions and inform the business
• Data infrastructure management and lead on technical design and data model architecture
• Drive the adoption of best practices and industry standards for data engineering
• Support data quality and data governance activities
• Work collaboratively in a team of data professionals and wider networks of data analysts and data champions
• Project management for data projects, building effective, credible relationships across the business
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to the data engineering team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth
• Stay updated on the latest advancements in data engineering, evaluating and recommending new tools and techniques to enhance the data engineering capabilities

What you will need to have

• Experience in building and managing scalable cloud data solutions using data warehouses and data lakes such as Snowflake, Big Query, and or Databricks
• Experience in designing and building data pipelines in tools such as Matillion, DBT, Azure Data Factory, Airflow, Spark, or equivalent tool
• Experienced in architecting cloud-native solutions in Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform
• Extensive knowledge of data warehouse data modeling such as dimensional modeling
• Experience in building out CI/CD processes to facilitate software engineering best practices using Azure DevOps or an equivalent tool
• Exposure to providing high-quality data pipelines for data science and reporting teams to better inform the business
• Fluent in SQL and experience in optimizing SQL queries
• Professional experience in a programming language (Python preferred) to build data pipelines with production-quality code
• Experience managing data and data systems within data regulations such as GDPR and SOX

What would make you stand out

• Good understanding of code repositories such as GIT
• Familiarity with Power BI or other visualization tools

 What we offer

• A great Team and culture – please see our Recruitment Video
• An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction
• Competitive Salary and benefits
• The opportunity to work within a global and diverse international team
• A supportive and collaborative environment

About Bentley Systems:

Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities. Our offerings, powered by the iTwin Platform for infrastructure digital twins, include MicroStation and Bentley Open applications for modeling and simulation, Seequent’s software for geoprofessionals, and Bentley Infrastructure Cloud encompassing ProjectWise for project delivery, SYNCHRO for construction management, and AssetWise for asset operations. Bentley Systems’ 5,000 colleagues generate annual revenues of more than $1 billion in 194 countries.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Bentley is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers for employment all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, religion/belief, national origin, caste, age, or any other characteristic protected by local law or unrelated to job qualifications.